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Why did the location of my Dropbox folder change?
Today I noticed that right clicking on files in my Dropbox folder (the ones pinned to my Finder sidebar) did not bring up the Dropbox menu options.
After further investigation I realized that...
I didnât realize the change had taken place (because of no notification), and all my stuff referenced file paths in the old location, /User/MyName/Dropbox/.
Files that I deleted from one machine (but expected to still be in the cloud and on other devices) ended up just getting deleted permanently because the folder was no longer syncing. Some of these I had older versions of in the /Library/CloudStorage/ path, but not all, and even for those there appears to be a fair bit of corruption because of the location change. This sort of thing shouldnât have been done without an explicit popup asking user verification of the change first
Files that I deleted from one machine (but expected to still be in the cloud and on other devices) ended up just getting deleted permanently because the folder was no longer syncing. Some of these I had older versions of in the /Library/CloudStorage/ path, but not all, and even for those there appears to be a fair bit of corruption because of the location change. This sort of thing shouldnât have been done without an explicit popup asking user verification of the change first
By the way, I deleted Dropbox entirely from my system (not the files). Rebooted and did a full and detailed reinstall setting my old location then used CLI to change the files location to the old location and voila, back in operation. I just don't understand why Dropbox never asked if I wanted to move my files!! I did not and now all my workflows are restored.
- Rich
Super User II
Gerald B.5 wrote:
Rebooted and did a full and detailed reinstall setting my old location ... and voila, back in operation.
Keep in mind that doing the full reinstall likely isn't a final solution. Someone else tried that and it worked, but a short time later, Dropbox was prompting them to go through the update again.
I just don't understand why Dropbox never asked if I wanted to move my files!!You likely missed the notification which included a link to the FAQ about the changes. The short version is that this isn't an option. Dropbox for macOS is being updated to use Apple's File Provider API, which forces the use of the Library/CloudStorage location.
When is someone from Dropbox going to get on this thread and tell us how to reverse this? Drop is going to lose a massive number of customers. Why is that ok? All of my dropbox files are now being managed also mt iCloud. I cannot get rid of the iCloud download icons and some files won't even open.
Release a patch for this ASAP or I will go to Box to there are many other competitors who would never do something like this.
